Is Phanpy Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Not in the Sinnoh dex. Transfer-only Ground from Johto. Donphan at 25 hits hard physically with AbilitySturdy. If imported, handles Volkner and Flint. Garchomp and Hippowdon fill Ground natively. Not worth the import.
Phanpy trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Gardenia's team hits Phanpy's weaknesses hard.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Donphan resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Donphan has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Phanpy on Route 207 (walking, Lv 5, common). Swarm.
Recommended Moves
- LV 10NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Gardenia
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- After Fantina
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Iron Island
- LV 37NormalLast ResortPower 130Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Byron
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- LV 42NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Phanpy to Donphan
Phanpy evolves into Donphan at Level 25. Your Phanpy should hit Level 25 before you reach Maylene, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- After Fantina
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Iron Island
- TM84PoisonPoison JabPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 212
- LV 46GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Volkner
- TM71RockStone EdgePower 100Accuracy 80%PP 5Victory Road
- LV 54NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Phanpy in Diamond & Pearl
The only Phanpy in these games shows up through a Swarm at one early route, common at level 5. That swarm is a once-a-day affair, so the little elephant is easy to miss if you are not watching the list.
Wild Phanpy may be holding when caught:
Passho Berry (5% chance) Held: Consumed when struck by a super-effective Water-type attack to halve the damage.1 location to catch Phanpy
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 2Where To Catch Phanpy in DP
- Step 1Phanpy ✓
- Step 2Evolve into DonphanBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Phanpy egg.
Bring the right balls: check Phanpy catch odds in the Diamond & Pearl Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Phanpy in Diamond & Pearl
Phanpy trots out during its Route 207 swarm, where a PokeRadar chain is what drops its shiny odds dramatically. Compare Shiny Phanpy odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Phanpy Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Phanpy in the Diamond & Pearl Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Phanpy Weakness
Phanpy's Ground typing leaves it vulnerable to Water, Grass, and Ice. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. 3 weaknesses is about average, nothing too hard to play around.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Grass, Ice |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison, Rock |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Phanpy Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Phanpy
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Leafeon Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Wormadam BugGrass | C | |
 Grotle Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Lake Verity Gift) | ||
 Lombre WaterGrass | D | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Lombre builds →Solar Beam 2x114-134%KO Ice Beam 2x60-72% Water Pulse 2x59-70% | ||
 Lileep RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
 Budew GrassPoison | C | |
 Gastrodon WaterGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Gastrodon builds →Ice Beam 2x83-97% Water Pulse 2x79-93% | ||
 Floatzel Water | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Floatzel builds →Ice Beam 2x77-91% Water Pulse 2x74-87% | ||
 Prinplup Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Piplup (Lake Verity Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Prinplup builds →Bubble Beam 2x77-90% Ice Beam 2x74-87% | ||
 Bibarel NormalWater | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Bibarel builds →Ice Beam 2x55-66% Water Pulse 2x54-64% | ||
 Omanyte RockWater | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Omanyte builds →Brine 2x83-99% Ice Beam 2x81-95% | ||
 Surskit BugWater | D | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Surskit builds →Solar Beam 2x66-78% Bubble Beam 2x56-67% Ice Beam 2x52-62% | ||
Phanpy Evolutions
Phanpy evolves into Donphan. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A massive partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 170 total stats over Phanpy. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Phanpy easily with 131 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Ancient Power, Body Slam, Counter and 5 more to offspring.
DP Phanpy Best Moveset
90 HP is the standout for an unevolved Ground type, but 60 Attack and 40 Speed can't deliver in any competitive format. The moveset previews Donphan's physical role. Donphan is where the Ground role starts.
Best Build
Phanpy best EVs are Attack and HP
Hazard Setter Moveset
- Earthquake
- Ice Shard
- Stealth Rock
- Head Smash
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Ancient Power and Body Slam from the egg pool give Phanpy something extra.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
25 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It is strong despite its compact size. It can easily pick up and carry an adult human on its back.
Phanpy Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Phanpy in Diamond & Pearl can hold Passho Berry (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Passho Berry.
In Diamond & Pearl, Phanpy does the job early-game if you need a Ground type on your team. Evolve it into Donphan before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Phanpy first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 16 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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